Procrustes

The Stretcher — also called Damastes or Polypemon — who kept an inn on the road from Eleusis to Athens near the river Cephissus. He had two beds, a long and a short; travellers too short for the long bed he stretched on a rack to fit it, and travellers too tall for the short bed he lopped at the feet. No guest ever fit either bed because he chose which to use after the guest lay down. Theseus made him lie on his own bed and gave him the same treatment — whether by the stretching or the cutting the sources disagree, but in every telling the death was by the method. With him the last of the six road-brigands is dead and Theseus reaches Athens unopposed.

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